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Climate change is affecting western Alaskan communities in many negative ways: infrastructure damage, loss of safe water sources, loss of the subsistence way of life, more danger from hunting and fishing near uncertain ...

Marine EBM in the U.S. calls for moving from sector-based governance to integrated governance. Integration at large scales reduces the potential for collective action because transaction costs may exceed the benefits of ...

Marine casualties that threaten the environment can impose large private and social costs. One means of reducing these costs is to maintain a professional salvage capability. In the United States this service is provided ...

An ever-growing body of literature highlights the importance of understanding user groups and stakeholders in conjunction with biological information to manage and recover threatened or endangered species. Stakeholder ...

Danajon Bank is the only double barrier reef in the Philippines. Found off the northern coast of Bohol Island, central Philippines, Danajon expands over an area of 272 km². The Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation, ...

Bureaucratic Impediments to Collaboration: A Case Study of the Asian Carp and the Great Lakes Basin Christina Wille Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Thomas Leschine School of Marine and Environmental Affairs ...

In 2012, the Washington State Blue Ribbon Panel on Ocean Acidification recommended actions to address local impacts of ocean acidification. At least two of these actions included a focus on seagrasses. Recognizing the ...

Recent attention has been given to the potential vulnerability of coastal zones to ocean acidification. Urban estuaries such as the Salish Sea are strongly influenced by human activities and could be particularly vulnerable ...

Multiple environmental changes in northern Alaska are producing conditions that increase the likelihood of a hazardous release such as an oil spill. Currently, the communities in the Northwest Arctic Borough (NWAB) do not ...

As the impacts of climate change begin to surface in all regions of the world, it has become clear that mitigation cannot stand alone in addressing this issue. Adaptation to current and projected climate change impacts is ...

As the impacts of climate change begin to surface in all regions of the world, it has become clear that mitigation cannot stand alone in addressing this issue. Adaptation to current and projected climate change impacts is ...

As the impacts of climate change begin to surface in all regions of the world, it has become clear that mitigation cannot stand alone in addressing this issue. Adaptation to current and projected climate change impacts is ...

Scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is occurring and is an anthropogenic driven process; however, consensus and public understanding are lagging behind. While climate science is a highly uncertain ...

Scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is occurring and is an anthropogenic driven process; however, consensus and public understanding are lagging behind. While climate science is a highly uncertain ...

This analysis of coastal resource perceptions and behaviors demonstrates that while there are documented successes throughout the Philippines in community-based integrated coastal management projects, opportunities and ...

Scientific research is essential to supporting ecosystem recovery efforts. Given limited time and financial resources, funding entities may be interested in factors that influence the `impact' of research findings on ...

The Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation (CCE Foundation), a Philippine environmental organization, in collaboration with Region 7 municipality leaders from Cebu, Leyte, and Bohol, as well as various financial ...

The linkage of diverse sets of actors at different management levels and across institutional and organizational boundaries is at the core of adaptive governance regimes but often poses one of the greatest challenges in ...

The interdisciplinary field of marine and environmental affairs focuses on the dynamic relationships between society and the natural world. These interactions overtime create a <italic> cultural landscape </italic> where ...

Involving stakeholders in natural resource management offers both normative and objective benefits, and co-management is a much-studied topic. However, the definition of `co-management' remains vague and incomplete. This ...